World’S Kickoff Autonomous Transportation Fellowship Established Inward Norway

We've been watching this 1 for a piece every bit it ticks a few of the boxes:

1. Autonomous
2. Electric
3. Shipping
4. Fertilizer
5. Kristian Birkeland

Our hero

"He likewise co-founded Norsk Hydro too got his motion painting on the encompass of the Rolling Stone Norway's 200 kr banknote:

The banknote became invalid at the terminate of final yr too the onetime man child was replaced past times a cod too a herring...."

From gCaptain:

That Time Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Dozen Norwegians Stopped the Nazis From Developing the Atom Bomb too Possibly Saved Europe
Oct. 2017 
Norwegian Government to Chip In $17 Million to Develop the First Electric Autonomous Cargo Ship
September 2017
Shipping: "Value of Autonomy Questioned" 
July 2017 
"Norway Takes Lead inwards Race to Build Autonomous Cargo Ships"

...Shipping executives tell autonomous vessels volition last pop for curt sea routes, only doubtfulness they volition supplant oceangoing ships that deed thousands of containers across continents amongst an average crew size of around 25.

“It’s non a affair of technology, which is already there, only a draw organisation case,” said Lars Jensen, principal executive of SeaIntelligence Consulting inwards Copenhagen. “Autonomous ships are expensive to laid out with, too accept to last built really robust, because if they pause down, the toll of getting a squad to arrive at them it inwards the middle of the sea volition last really high.”...  

May 2017 
Shipping: He May Not Have Received His Nobel Prizes But The World's First Fully Electric Autonomous Container Ship Will Be Called the Birkeland
March 2017
"New Research on Northern Lights Will Improve Satellite Navigation Accuracy"

Ha! Birkeland smiles.
He should accept been awarded a yoke Nobel prizes.*
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*Here's  the Nobelprize.org Nomination Database:
Jan. `2017
"Forget Autonomous Cars—Autonomous Ships Are Almost Here"
July 2016
Autonomy: "Rolls-Royce’s cargo send of the futurity requires no onboard crew"